Daily Archive: Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Articles published on Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Woman murdered at Harlem had been on errand

-was attending CPCE By Oluatoyin Alleyne By Oluatoyin Alleyne The body that was found with stab wounds at Harlem, West Coast Demerara, has been identified as a 22-year-old Essequibo resident who was staying with relatives at Cummings Lodge New Scheme, East Coast Demerara while she attended the Cyril Potter College of Education (CPCE).

The national team minutes before they boarded the bus in front of the cricket hostel in Alberttown. From left are Manager Carl Moore, Esuan Crandon, Brandon Bess, Royston Crandon, Veerasammy Permaul, Devendra Bishoo, Assad Fudadin, Rajendra Chandrika, Vishal Singh, Sewnarine Chattergoon (Captain), Trevor Benn, Travis Dowlin, Narsingh Deonarine, Derwin Christian and Coach Rabindranauth Seeram.   (Orlando Charles photo)

Bon voyage!

– local cricketers express confidence in facing T&T By Marlon Munroe Local cricketers departed the Dr.

Secretary of the BCB Angela Haniff hands over the TENELEC Inc. trophy to successful Captain Loydel Lewis.

Berbice Tenelec Inc under-15 tourney

RHTFM crowned champions The Rose Hall Town Farfan and Mendes (RHTFM) team won $30,000 and the Berbice Under-15 champions crown after they defeated Tucber Park on first innings in the final of the Tenelec Inc Championships held at the Area ‘H’ Ground last Sunday.

Record-breaking McGwire admits steroid use

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Former St Louis Cardinals  slugger Mark McGwire has admitted using steroids when he was a  player, including in 1998 when he broke the single-season  home-run record, but denied they improved his performance.

Guyana retains ‘Free’ ranking

Freedom continues to deteriorate worldwide, the independent human rights organization, Freedom House said in its annual global survey of political rights and civil liberties but Guyana retained its ‘Free’ ranking.

The National Development Strategy was not expected to go into detail on individual transport projects

Dear Editor, Most people would prefer, and it is indeed current practice, to have technical matters relating to engineering design and construction confined to technical journals of learned societies rather than aired in the public media, but in Guyana this is not necessarily accepted, not only because people love to argue in any forum, but also because engineers rarely write to reveal the broad spectrum of their professional experience.

I love annoying the opposition, says Collingwood

JOHANNESBURG,  (Reuters) – Paul Collingwood, who has  played a key role making sure England go into tomorrow’s fourth  and final test against South Africa 1-0 up in the series, said  he loved annoying the opposition with long, defiant innings.

Our fate in our hands, says Ivory Coast coach

CABINDA, Angola, (Reuters) – Ivory Coast, held 0-0 by  Burkina Faso on Monday, face the prospect of early elimination  from the African Nations Cup with one of the tournament  favourites having only one game left in Group B against Ghana.

A bizarre incident

Dear Editor, Your news article, ‘Mahaicony man arrested after threat at meeting with President,’ (January 11), is the most alarming example yet of the depths to which Guyana has sunk, where a private citizen can summon the courage to tell the President of Guyana to his face that if anyone, even the President, were to put foot on that citizen’s land with the intention of seizing it, then that citizen would take defensive action and shoot.

Google may pull out of China after Web attacks

SAN FRANCISCO, (Reuters) – Google Inc said it may  pull out of China because it is no longer willing to accept  censorship of search results and after hackers coordinated a  sophisticated attack on email accounts of human rights  activists using its Gmail service.

Change and stability in Obama’s foreign policy

The political tensions arising in Washington over the arrest of a Nigerian accused of having been trained and directed by al Qaeda from Yemen, to detonate a bomb on an American aircraft, suggest the continuing influence of the 9/11 New York bombing on United States foreign policy decision-making.